Additional Campus Affiliations

Research Interests

US 19th and 20th Century Cultural and Intellectual History, Working-class history, Histories of space and place, Comparative U.S. and South African History

Education

Ph.D. American Studies, Yale University, 1991

B.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 1981

Courses

Fall 2012: History 172, US History Since 1877

Selected Publications

Book Contributions

Oberdeck, Kathryn J, and Frank Tobias Higbie"Labour and Popular Print Culture"Oxford History of Popular Print"Labour and Popular Print Culture"OxfordOxford University Press2011.

“Competing Geographies of Welfare Capitalism and its Workers: Kohler Village and the Spatial Politics of Planned Company Towns”Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Spaceedited by
Andrew Herrod, edited by
Susan McGrath-Champ, edited by
Al Rainnie.“Competing Geographies of Welfare Capitalism and its Workers: Kohler Village and the Spatial Politics of Planned Company Towns”Edited by
Andrew Herrod, Edited by
Susan McGrath-Champ, Edited by
Al Rainnie,Edward Elgar2010.

"Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth Century Kohler, Wisconsin,Archive Stories: Evidence, Experience, History"Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth Century Kohler, Wisconsin,Durham, NCDuke University Press2005.

Journal Articles

Oberdeck, Kathryn J“Of Tubs and Toil: Kohler Workers in an Empire of Hygiene, 1920-2000”International Review of Social History552010, p. 447-483.

Books

The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America,1884-1914BaltimoreJohns Hopkins University Press1999.

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